# sele
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English sele (“happiness, good fortune, bliss; an occasion, period of time”), from Old English sǣl (“time, occasion, an opportune time, opportunity, happiness, prosperity, good times”), from Proto-West Germanic *sālī, from Proto-Germanic *sēliz. Related to silly.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /siːl/
* Homophone: seal
* Rhymes: -iːl

### Noun

sele (countable and uncountable, plural seles)
* (obsolete or dialectal) Happiness, fortune.
* (obsolete or dialectal, British) The right time or occasion for something, an opportune moment, season
* Greeting, salutation.
** 1862, George Borrow, chapter XXXV, in Wild Wales Its People‚ Language and Scenery‎ (Fiction), Read Central, archived from the original on 31 October 2013:I found my friend honest Pritchard smoking his morning pipe at the front door, and after giving him the sele of the day, […]
** 1897, William Morris, chapter XIV, in The Water of the Wondrous Isles‎ (Fantasy), published 2005, page 245:When the morning was come […] so she arose and thrust her grief back into her heart, and gave her fellow-farer the sele of the day, […]

#### Derived terms

* haysel (“hay season”)

#### Related terms

* silly

### Anagrams

* slee, Slee, lese, lees, EELS, Lees, eels, Else, seel, else, ELEs, l'ees

## Asturian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsele/ [ˈse.le]
* Hyphenation: se‧le

### Adjective

sele (epicene, plural seles)
* calm, tranquil
    Synonyms: calmu, tranquilu

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈsɛlɛ]
* Rhymes: -ɛlɛ
* Hyphenation: se‧le

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

sele n (diminutive selátko)
* piglet

##### Declension
#### Further reading

* “sele”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “sele”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “sele”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

sele
* locative singular of selo
    Synonym: selu

### Anagrams

* Else
* lese

## Fijian
### Noun

sele
* knife

### Verb

sele
* cut (with a knife)

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old English sǣl, from Proto-West Germanic *sālī, in turn from Proto-Germanic *sēliz.

#### Alternative forms

* cele, seile, seel, sel

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /seːl/, /sɛːl/

#### Noun

sele (plural seles)
* happiness, prosperity, fortune
* time, duration, season

##### Descendants

* English: sele, seel
* Scots: seil

##### References

* “sē̆l(e, n.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 2

From Old English seol, seolh, from Proto-West Germanic *selh, in turn from Proto-Germanic *selhaz.

#### Alternative forms

* cele, sel

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɛːl/

#### Noun

sele (plural seles)
* seal (animal)

##### Descendants

* English: seal
* Scots: selch
* Yola: sel

##### References

* “sēl(e, n.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse seli, sili.

### Noun

sele m (definite singular selen, indefinite plural seler, definite plural selene)
* a harness (usually for horses, dogs and small children)
* braces (UK) or suspenders (US) (used on trousers)

#### Derived terms

* buksesele
* seletøy

### References

* “sele” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* esel, esle, lees, lese, -else

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* sållå (dialectal)

### Etymology

From Old Norse seli, sili.

### Noun

sele m (definite singular selen, indefinite plural selar, definite plural selane)
* a harness (usually for horses, dogs and small children)
* braces (UK) or suspenders (US) (used on trousers)
* (rare, colloquial) seat belt
    Synonym: bilbelte

#### Usage notes

Depending on dialect, this term can also mean different parts of horse harness.

#### Derived terms

* buksesele
* seletøy

### References

* “sele” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sali, from Proto-Germanic *saliz, from Proto-Indo-European *sel-.
Cognate with Old Saxon seli, Old High German sali, Old Norse salr (Swedish sal), Lombardic sala; and with Old Church Slavonic село (selo), Russian село́ (seló). There was also a Germanic variant *saloz-, Old English sæl (“great hall, (large) house, castle”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈse.le/

### Noun

sele m (nominative plural selas)
* great hall, house, dwelling, prison
** Winter ýþe beleác ísgebinde óþ ðæt óðer com geár in geardas swá nú gyt déþ ða ðe sele bewitiaþ wuldortorhtan weder. ― Winter locks the waves with bonds of ice until another year came to the dwellings of those who keep a constant watch for good weather. (Beowulf)
* tabernacle, gesele

#### Declension

Strong i-stem:

#### Derived terms

* bānsele (“body (bone-house)”)
* bēagsel, bēagsele (“hall in which rings are distributed”)
* bēorsele (“beer-hall, banqueting hall”)
* burgsele (“castle-hall, house”)
* burnsele (“bath-house”)
* dēaþsele (“death-hall, hell”)
* drēorsele (“dreary hall”)
* dryhtsele (“princely hall”)
* eorþsele (“cave-dwelling”)
* gæstsele (“guest-hall”)
* gesele (“tabernacle”)
* goldsele (“hall in which gold is distributed”)
* grundsele (“abysmal dwelling”)
* gūþsele (“hall of warriors”)
* hēahsele (“high hall”)
* hornsele (“house with gables”)
* hringsele (“hall in which rings are bestowed”)
* hrōfsele (“roofed hall”)
* nīþsele (“hall of conflict”)
* seledrēam (“hall-joy, festivity”)
* seleful (“hall-goblet”)
* seleġesċēot, selesċot (“tabernaculum, tent, lodging-place, nest”) (German Geschoss)
* selegyst (“hall-guest”)
* selerǣdend (“hall ruler or possessor”)
* selerest (“bed in hall”)
* selesecg (“retainer”)
* seleþegn (“hall-thane, retainer, attendant”)
* seleweard (“hall-warden”)
* þacsele, þæcsele (“a building with a thatched roof”)
* willsele (“pleasant dwelling”)
* wyrmsele (“hall of serpents, hell”)

#### Related terms

* sæl

#### Descendants

* Middle English: *sele
** ⇒ Middle English: wunsele

### References

* John R. Clark Hall (1916) “sele”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
* Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “sele”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

## Old French
### Etymology

From Latin sella.

### Noun

sele oblique singular, f (oblique plural seles, nominative singular sele, nominative plural seles)
* saddle (equipment used on a horse)

#### Related terms

* enseler

#### Descendants

* Middle French: selle
** French: selle
* Norman: selle

## Old Frisian
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *saiwalu.

### Noun

sēle f
* soul, life

#### Inflection

Strong feminine o-stem

### References

* Köbler, Gerhard, Altfriesisches Wörterbuch (4th edition 2014)

## Portuguese
### Verb

sele
* inflection of selar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Sotho
### Enumerative

sele
* other

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsele/ [ˈse.le]
* Rhymes: -ele
* Syllabification: se‧le

### Verb

sele
* inflection of ser:
** second-person singular imperative combined with le
** second-person singular voseo imperative combined with le

## Swedish
### Noun

sele c
* a harness (for a horse or other draft animal)
    Synonym: seldon
* a harness (arrangement with straps or the like to provide for attachment or to carry something or the like)

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | sele | seles |
| singular | definite | selen | selens |
| plural | indefinite | selar | selars |
| plural | definite | selarna | selarnas |

#### Derived terms

* barnsele (“child harness”)
* bärsele (“baby carrier”)
* fallskärmssele (“parachute harness”)
* hundsele (“dog harness”)
* klättersele (“climbing harness”)
* sela (“to harness”)
* skidsele (“ski harness”)
* stridssele (“combat harness”)
* säkerhetssele (“safety harness”)

#### See also

* betsel (“bridle”)
* fira (“lower (by letting out on a rope)”)
* fira sig ner (“rappel, abseil”)
* hissa
* tygel (“rein”)
* vinscha (“winch”)

### References

* sele in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* sele in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* sele in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

## Turkish
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish سله, from Arabic سَلَّة (salla), from Classical Syriac ܣܲܠܛܵܐ (sallətā, “basket”).

#### Noun

sele (definite accusative seleyi, plural seleler)
* a wide wicker basket

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

From French selle.

#### Noun

sele (definite accusative seleyi, plural seleler)
* saddle (of a bicycle)

##### Declension
### Etymology 3
#### Noun

sele (definite accusative seleyi, plural seleler)
* Alternative form of sere

### References

* ↑ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سله”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1075
* ↑ “sele”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu